_Ille amat, hæc odit, fugit hæc: ſectatur at ille Dúmque fugit: Laurus facta repentè ſtetit. Sic amat, & fruſtra, nec Apollo potitus amore eſt. Vltus Apollinis eſt, ſic Amor opprobrium. HAECINE doctorum ſors eſt inimica virorum, Vt iuuenes quamuis non redamentur ament? Exoſoſque habeat prudentes ſtulta iuuentus His ne iungatur ſtipes vt eſſe velit._ The most beautiful of the maidens of Thessaly, Daphne, the daughter of the river-god Peneus, was Apollo’s earliest love. He sought her in marriage, and being refused by her, prepared to force consent. The maiden fled, and was pursued, and, at the very moment of her need invoked her father’s aid, and was transformed into a laurel. At this instant the device of Anulus represents her, in the “PICTA POESIS” (P. 47).[141] “He loves, she hates; she flees, but he pursues, And while she flees, stopped suddenly, to laurel changed. So loves Apollo, and in vain; nor enjoys his love. So love has avenged the reproach of Apollo. This very judgment of learned men is it not hostile, That youths should love though not again be loved? Hated should foolish youth account the wise Lest by these the log be not joined as it wishes to be.” The _Midsummer Night’s Dream_ (act ii. sc. 1, l. 227, vol. ii. p. 218) reverses the fable; Demetrius flees and Helena pursues,— “_Dem._ I’ll run from thee and hide me in the brakes, And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts. _Hel._ The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase: The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues, and valour flies.” There is, too, the quotation already made for another purpose (p. 115) from the _Taming of the Shrew_ (Introd. sc. 2, l. 55),— “Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood, Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds, And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep, So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.” And Troilus (act i. sc. 1, l. 94, vol. vi. p. 130) makes the invocation,— “Tell me, Apollo, for thy Daphne’s love What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we?” Among Mythological Characters we may rank Milo, “of force unparalleled;” to whom with crafty words of flattery Ulysses likened Diomed; _Troilus and Cressida_ (act ii. sc. 3, l. 237),— “But he that disciplined thine arms to fight, Let Mars divide eternity in twain, And give him half: and for thy vigour, Bull-bearing Milo his addition yield To sinewy Ajax.”